Helen Garner Quotes & Sayings
34 most famous Helen Garner quotes and sayings (novelist). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.”
“But there are some wounds that can never be healed.”
“I like poking my nose into other people's lives.”
“We were in a great, seething moment in the 1970s. There was a new Labour government and everything seemed full of hope... But, as we got older and we saw how much women's behaviour contributed to what was wrong, we stopped being able to see ourselves purely as.”
“I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars or ride around on skateboards. But the actual writers I know are experts in neurotic self-torture. Every page of writing is the result of a thousand tiny decisions and desperate acts of will.”
“That's the best thing that's ever happened to me, bar none, is having grandchildren and living by them and being part of their lives.”
“I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.”
“It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life.”
“It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.”
“People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver.”
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